Jeff Vincent

October 14, 2022

Let's design early education facilities now to meet the challenge of climate change

Children aren't responsible for climate change, but they'll experience the worst of it unless we make sure the places they'll spend growing and learning are prepared to protect them.

Angie Garling, Jeff Vincent, Isabelle Donohoe, and Joe Fretwell

February 23, 2022

Interest in district-subsidized teacher housing in California intensifies

California school districts have thousands of properties on which to build apartments for teachers struggling to pay rent, a new report details.

John Fensterwald

February 28, 2020

Pros, cons and confusion over $15 billion construction bond

This week: Jeff  Vincent, director of the Center for Cities and Schools at UC Berkeley, explains what Prop 13 would do and how the money would be distributed; and Chris Funk, superintendent of East Side Union High School District, lays out the case for teacher housing.

EdSource staff

September 13, 2019

Big school bond with reforms, new pitch to presidential candidates

This week: We interview Jeff Vincent, of the Center for Cities + Schools at UC Berkeley, about whether the proposed $15 billion bond measure will solve funding inequities; and we interview Laura Schifter, the policy director of a new coalition, ED2020, whose goal is to persuade presidential candidates.

EdSource staff

September 6, 2019

Gov. Newsom, lawmakers still negotiating K-14 construction bond

State officials have called for giving property-poor districts a bigger share of state funding.

John Fensterwald

June 20, 2019

$13 billion state bond for school construction targeted for 2020 California ballot

The author of the bill, Patrick O'Donnell, says he is open to examining the fairness of the school modernization program's funding.

John Fensterwald

April 12, 2019

Restrictions on charter school growth move forward; efforts for more fairness in school renovation funding

This week, arguments for and against the bills seeking to limit charter school growth and how state bond money for facilities could be more fairly distributed.

EdSource staff

April 12, 2019

California plan for school construction bonds sparks debate for reform

Advocates for more equitable state funding of school facilities see proposals for multi-billion dollar state construction bonds in 2020 and 2022 as a chance to make a case for changing the state formula for distributing money.

John Fensterwald